Monday, July 13, 2015

David Brooks is an Ass

New York Times columnist David Brooks is an ass in both
senses of the word; a hole through which noxious waste is routinely emitted and
a braying donkey, offending the ears every time he opens his mouth. He is the Washington
beltway’s babble-master, wrapping his never-ending defense of elite white men
with the eloquence of a Victorian era English professor.

It is no surprise that Brooks detests Bernie Sanders. On
Friday night’s PBS NewsHour, Brooks said that Sanders doesn’t understand America’s
working class, suburban voters, blacks or Latinos. This from a man so
cloistered in his world of white privilege he routinely blames the poor (code
for minorities) for being poor, as if they are a subspecies that lacks the
correct set of genes to hold down a job that pays more than seven dollars an
hour.

Brooks is America’s mouthpiece for the status quo. Sanders
is a threat to the status quo. Ergo, Brooks hates Sanders. Not to mention that
Sanders is a democratic socialist where Brooks is the champion of laissez-faire
capitalism. But for the defender of this country’s rich and powerful to say
Sanders doesn’t understand the working class, blacks or Latinos is like Rush
Limbaugh saying Obama doesn’t understand what it’s like to be an African
American. It’s a claim that is so divorced from reality, and comes from the
mouth of a man who routinely characterizes the working class as lazy whiners
and blacks or Latinos as moral and intellectual inferiors, that it should make
everybody’s head explode.

David Brooks is an ass. In a just world he would be editing
recipes for the Daily Shopper, not writing opinion pieces for the New York
Times.